Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-398) and index

pt. 1 THE HAUNTING IMPULSE -- ch. 1 Ghosts: A Brief History -- ch. 2 Naked Ghosts! -- ch. 3 Headless Ghosts I Have Known -- ch. 4 Experiencing the Other Side -- ch. 5 Entombed Alive! -- ch. 6 Ghostly Lore and Lure -- ch. 7 The Doctor's Ghostly Visitor: Tracking "the Girl in the Snow" -- ch. 8 Elvis Lives! Investigating the Legends and Phenomena -- ch. 9 Encountering Phantom Soldiers -- ch. 10 Conjuring Ghosts: The Haunting of Van Horn Mansion -- ch. 11 Animal Spirits -- pt. 2 SPIRITED TRAVELS -- ch. 12 Ghost of an Alaska Murderer? -- ch. 13 Lighthouse Specters -- ch. 14 The Storied Lighthouse Ghost -- ch. 15 Pirates' Ghosts: Aar-r-gh! -- ch. 16 An Austrian Castle Haunted by Paracelsus? -- ch. 17 Incarcerated Ghosts: Haunted Dungeons, Prisons, and Jails -- ch. 18 Convict Specters at Alcatraz -- ch. 19 Ghosts in the Mirror -- ch. 20 Haunted Dutch Mines -- ch. 21 Stage Fright: Theatrical Hauntings -- ch. 22 Worldwide Hauntings -- pt. 3 COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEAD -- ch. 23 A Skeleton's Tale: The Origins of Modern Spiritualism -- ch. 24 Spirit Search: William James and the SPR -- ch. 25 Ghostwritten Texts? -- ch. 26 The Seances of "Hellish Nell": Solving the Unexplained -- ch. 27 Seance Undercover -- ch. 28 "Messages" from the 9/11 Dead -- ch. 29 Synchronicities: A Pathologist among the Spirits -- ch. 30 John Edward: Spirit Huckster -- ch. 31 The Real "Ghost Whisperer" -- ch. 32 Sylvia Browne: Does She Talk to the Dead? -- pt. 4 GHOST HUNTING -- ch. 33 Ghost Hunting -- ch. 34 Ghost Hunters -- ch. 35 Scientific Investigations vs. Ghost Hunters -- ch. 36 Ghost Hustling in Connecticut -- ch. 37 Ghost Forensics -- ch. 38 Photoghosts: Images of the Spirit Realm? -- ch. 39 Ghostly Experiences: Magnetic Fields or Suggestibility? -- ch. 40 Ghost Hunting's Other Side -- ch. 41 Ghostly Endeavor: Ethical Issues Haunt Kentucky Press -- ch. 42 Catching Ghosts -- ch. 43 Poltergeist Attacks! -- ch. 44 Rampaging Mind: The Seaford Poltergeist Case

Visiting sites around the world, the author examines the evidence for contact with the dead from eyewitness accounts, photographs, ghost phenomena, and trace evidence and provides his conclusions

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